Halloween<\/em> costars, Judy Greer and Andi Matichak, are expected to return as Laurie’s daughter and granddaughter, respectively, who teamed up with Laurie to defeat Michael in the last installment.<\/p>\nA representative for Blumhouse had no comment as of press time.<\/p>\n
A somewhat sizable question mark surrounding the news is if director Green or his co-writer, Danny McBride, will be back for more scares with The Shape. While\u00a0Collider’s sources say Green wrote the script and is expected to return behind the camera, it’s not yet officially a done deal. The indie director’s sensibilities proved to be a welcome shot in the arm for the franchise, as his movie was a hit with fans and critics, and at the box office, where it grossed $255 million globally on a reported $10 million production budget.<\/p>\n
Where we last left the Family Strode, Laurie and her brood were in the back of pick-up truck that was speeding away from Laurie’s fortified compound. There, she and her daughter lured Michael into a trap that ended with the unstoppable killer seemingly burning alive. But fans of the genre know that not even a backdraft inside an enclosed space can keep Michael and his murderous ways down.<\/p>\n
No story specifics are known at this time, but fans can expect a new supporting cast of potential victims being introduced as Laurie and her family deal with a Michael Myers out for revenge.<\/p>\n
October 16, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Michael Myers will be terrorizing us again in theaters soon. Halloween 2, the sequel to 2018’s hit rebootquel from Blumhouse and director\/co-writer David Gordon Green, is set to start shooting after Labor Day this year,\u00a0Collider\u00a0reported Thursday. The sequel will be released on\u00a0October 16, 2020, a date Blumhouse and Universal Studios had earmarked previously for an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8628,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions\/8628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}